Fairy Tale
Rumpelstiltskin
There is a king and there is a man
The man says his daughter can turn straw into gold
“I don’t believe you”
He takes the daughter to a room filled with straw.
If you do not turn all this straw to gold by tomorrow, I will kill you.
He puts her in the room and locks the door.
What can I do?
“Oh no, I cannot really turn straw into gold! The king is going to kill me!”
A strange little man hears her cry.
“Why are you crying?”
“The king is going to kill me if I do not turn this straw into gold tonight! It cannot be done!”
“It can be done! I can do it! What will you give me?”
“I can give you my necklace.”
I like this necklace. I will do it for you.
He starts working
The strange man uses a spinning wheel to turn the straw into gold.
The king wants more.
The king is amazed. But he wants more. He takes her to an even bigger room.
Oh no! I will die!
Oh no! This room has more straw than the last room! If only the strange little man could come again!
So Lucky
This time, the strange little man says he will do it for her ring.
The king wants EVEN MORE
Again, the king is amazed! But he wants even more. He takes her to an even bigger room. He tells her, “If you turn all of this straw into gold, I will marry you and you will be the queen”
Now she has nothing to pay the strange little man…
The strange little man comes again. He says, “Do you want me to do it again?”
The woman says, “The king said he would marry me if I could do this, but I do not have anything to give you! I only had that necklace and that ring.”
“Hmm… That is a problem. I can still do it if you give me the first baby you have with the king.”
The woman agrees to give the strange little man her first baby.
The strange little man happily starts working again!
The king keeps his promise
The king marries the woman.
Soon, they have a baby
The king and queen have their first baby.
The strange little man is back
“I am here for my payment, Queen,” the strange little man says. “You agreed to give me your first baby, so please give me the baby.”
No, please, I want my baby
She says she will give him anything he wants, but not the baby.
He says, “No, I only want the baby.”
“Please! I do not want to give you my baby!”
He says, “We can play a game…”
“If you can guess my name, I will let you keep your baby. You have three days.”
What could his name be???
She lays in bed and tries to think of his name.
She sends a messenger to get every name in the kingdom.
The messenger goes to get names.
No. No. No. Nope.
The queen reads every name in the kingdom.
“John?”
“No.”
“Steven?”
“Nope.”
“Am I close?”
“Hahaha. No.”
Look again.
Now the messenger goes to another country to get names.
He sees something very strange.
While the messenger looks for names, the Queen guesses again.
No. No. No. Nope.
The queen reads every name in the kingdom.
“Gerald?”
“No.”
“Harry?”
“Nope.”
…
Dancing and singing
The messenger sees a strange little man dancing and singing around a fire.
Tonight tonight, my plans I make,
Tomorrow tomorrow, the baby I take.
The Queen will never win the game,
Rumpelstiltskin is my name!
The messenger runs back to the Queen
“I do not have new names, but I saw a strange little man…”
On the third day
The Queen “guesses” again, “Is your name Stefanapolous?”
“No!”
“Is your name Shamalamafoofoo?”
“Noooo 🙂”
“Is your name Rumpelstiltskin?”
How did you know?!
He gets so mad he grabs his foot and rips himself in half.